PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former head of the police union in Newport has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to repay more than $70,000 of union money that prosecutors say he spent on himself.
Christopher Hayes of Middletown was sentenced Friday in federal court. After his prison term, he will spend six months of home confinement followed by three years of supervised released.
Hayes pleaded guilty in May to wire fraud. Prosecutors say he took almost $72,000 from 2009 to 2014 when he was the president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Newport.
The 49-year-old Hayes retired from the force in 2015 amid an audit of union finances.
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